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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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And in just in case, they shall be delivered from temptation with a sharp knife.

Those crazy Italians...

Castrato

A castrato was a male singer who was castrated before puberty to maintain a high voice. The term comes from the Italian word castrare, which means "to remove the testes of a male".

I enquired throughout Italy at what place boys were chiefly qualified for singing by castration, but could get no certain intelligence. I was told at Milan that it was at Venice; at Venice that it was at Bologna; but at Bologna the fact was denied, and I was referred to Florence; from Florence to Rome, and from Rome I was sent to Naples ... it is said that there are shops in Naples with this inscription: 'QUI SI CASTRANO RAGAZZI' ("Here boys are castrated"); but I was utterly unable to see or hear of any such shops during my residence in that city.
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